Cite strong and throughout evidence to support inferences drawn from the text. What influence can you draw about what to expect in the story from information using both details from the text and your background knowledge?

Do you mean inferences from before I read the story or after reading the introduction?

In the ¨House of Usher¨ and ¨House Taken Over¨, imagination overcomes reasoning because untold secrets give the characters fear. For example, the narrator says when I uplifted my eyes to the house itself, from its image in the pool, there grew in my mind, a strange fancy” (15). This example supports my thesis because I explain how imagination is reasoning to why the characters have fear.